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FX Scares Up a Second Season for American Horror Story

In a well-timed announcement — it is Halloween, after all — FX has renewed its haunted-house drama American Horror Story for a 13-episode second season.

The psychosexual thriller, from Glee co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, centers on the Harmons, a family that moves from Boston to a haunted house in Los Angeles in an attempt to reconcile after an affair and a miscarriage. It stars Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, Taissa Farmiga, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters and Denis O’Hare.

“It’s one thing to have the ambition and guts to reinvent a genre in a way that makes it captivatingly fresh for a broad audience – it’s something else entirely to have the craft to back that ambition up,” John Landgraf, president of FX Networks, said in a statement. “Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have hit the trifecta with Nip/Tuck, Glee and now American Horror Story, which will be scaring FX’s viewers to death for many years to come.”

The cable network will air a four-episode Halloween marathon tonight beginning at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The fifth episode, the conclusion of the two-part “Halloween,” will air Wednesday.

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Wildstorm

So this is one of the reasons I am losing my Fox networks, Fox’s greediness to make these shows

Joe

I don’t know if anyone’s seen this show, but scary it isn’t. Quite the reverse, I thought the pilot was hilariously funny, in a David Lynch-y way. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I’m not sure if I can watch the show if that’s not what the creators intended. I get the feeling they were going for the Shining, and got Twin Peaks instead. There’s nothing wrong with Twin Peaks, but I feel bad laughing my ass off if the creators are trying to scare me.

Skinner

Don’t feel bad. The first episode had me laughing like it was a comedy but that didn’t keep me from turning it off before the end. This show is terrible.

RunnerX13

???

Wildstorm

Fox wants Directv customers to pay 40% MORE for their channels or they will quit allowing Directv to carry them. Directv already pays Fox about 1 Billion a year to carry their channels.

Almighty1Azel

This show must not be bad for fx to renew the show for season 2… Fx has had many shows people like one it. S.o.a, nip/tuck, rescue me, always sunny, the league, archer… Shows millions of people watch